376 Sparks Road
8 council reports since October 2020, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 270 Sparks Road, 20 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Sparks Road Landscape Reserve, 159 m to the edge
- Six Silvers Reserve, 161 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Milns Drainage Reserve, 191 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Milns Reserve, 242 m to the edge
- John Olliver Reserve, 388 m to the edge · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 423 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Six Silvers Reserve plaque, 175 m away
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Halswell ran about $697 a week, $147 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 25 Mar 2024 S/east side of Sparks approx 70m N/east of Benrogon St. Water leak on shoulder of road.
Water Leak, 13 Mar 2024 It is probably on the main that is down to be replaced shortly but the leak has sped up recently so might get big soon. Peter McConnell is P
Water Leak, 11 Mar 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Dec 2023 Household rubbish dumped at back of new subdivision Benrogan, Eastman Drive
- Water Leak, 18 Jul 2023
- Damaged Road, 12 Mar 2023
- Roads - General, 21 Sept 2022
- Street Light Outage, 20 Oct 2020
traffic lights on quarrymans cycle trail across sparks rd are turning red every 15 sec or so after turning green though no cyclists present
Elsewhere on Sparks Road
- 270 Sparks Road, 20 reports
- 246 Sparks Road, 18 reports
- 381 Sparks Road, 11 reports
- 388 Sparks Road, 8 reports
- 458 Sparks Road, 6 reports
- 330A Sparks Road, 6 reports
- 469 Sparks Road, 5 reports
- 302 Sparks Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sparks Road in 29 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Sparks Road, the whole record → · Everything about Halswell → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
8 council reports on record since October 2020, most often water leak (4), street light outage (1), roads - general (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sparks Road Landscape Reserve, 159 m to its edge.



